Shimazaki Ryou did not like sad people.
They were boring. Sad people were boring. The only thing more boring than a sad person was being friends with a sad person. The only thing more boring than being friends with a sad person was being a sad person yourself…but he was not a sad person. He wasn't sad at all. So what if Toshi was pissed at him, legitimately pissed, that was…Toshi had a right to their feelings. Besides, it was coming up on…well no, it wasn't actually, because it was the twenty eighth….but still. Toshi just got moody sometimes. That was fine. Toshi was Toshi and Toshi sometimes got moody and if he didn't like it then he could just stop hanging out with Toshi. There. Simple. Right?
It wasn't.
He didn't know. He didn't want to think about this. He didn't want to think about anything. He didn't want to think about how mad he had made Toshi. Angry, legititmately angry, wasn't a good look on them. Heh. Blind humor. Maybe he should have said that one out loud. The kid's aura sounded sad. Mob's aura sounded sad. Her brother…well his aura had been all over the place. He might have been the more fun kid to hang out with but he was in the horny kid closet with some guy he'd been talking to all night and Shimazaki wasn't about to ruin that for Sho. He'd earned it putting up with all the shit he'd been putting up with. Though Sho would have been more fun to hang out with than Mob…
Not that she wasn't fun in her own way.
"Shimazaki….I'm cold. It's cold out here." Said Mob. She had wanted to be anywhere but that party. So Shimazaki had taken her anywhere but that party. Now they were outside in some park and she was so cold. She hadn't taken a coat. Well not her thick one. She had the thin blue one that came with her dress but that coat was mostly to look nice and stuff. She was very cold but she still didn't want to go back. She couldn't go back.
Not after what had happened.
Hatori had been in love with Minegishi the whole time…and they had known. It felt like…like Minegishi had pulled on one of her braids and stolen the hair tie at the end so that she couldn't tie it back and then half of her hair would have to be down and…and stuff. She didn't know. All she knew was that this was not a good feeling. She was still Minegishi's friend, nothing would ever make her stop being Minegishi's friend, but…but that had been a lot to take in…and stuff. Her best friend, the person who she was closest to in the whole world beside her own little brother, had known that the boy that she had been in love with had been in love with them…
And they hadn't even said anything.
The whole party had been going…ok…until that. Sure dad's speech had been long and boring and stuff but that was ok. The speech had still been nice even if it had been long. Dad said that all good speeches were over fifteen minutes long. The speech had bene long, very long, but he had still said nice things. Well not to people, like when she had to give her speech she made sure to make people feel good and stuff, he mostly just talked about how good the future was going to be when he ruled that world. That had made people feel good but she really thought that he should have ended it with telling everyone that he cared about them….but she wasn't the boss, he was, and she didn't get to tell him how to make his speeches…
And he wouldn't have, anyway, because she hadn't wanted to hurt his feelings.
Which was maybe why Minegishi hadn't told her that Hatori had been in love with them. Maybe they had been trying to save her feeling because…because they knew how much she liked Hatori…even though it was so…so much not nicer that….that they had just let her have good feelings about Hatori and stuff…even though they knew that he liked them…and stuff. He liked them and he had said so and when he had said that it had felt like her heart had been ripped out from her chest and shown to her like in Mortal Kombat…
But she was still best friends with Minegishi.
"Here, wear my coat." Said Shimazaki. He took off his suit coat and covered her with it. She couldn't keep her barrier in close enough to the point where she stopped feeling hot and cold. Well he could teach her how to fix that. There. He could help. He would help. He would help her stop being sad because sad people were boring and being in close proximity to them made him feel sad…and he did not do sad…
Not even when Toshi was mad at him.
He had just been having fun with the new kid, that was all, it wasn't like he had actually done anything wrong. He had shown the kid a good time. It wasn't his fault that the kid couldn't hold his liquor. Hell, this kid, the ten year old girl he was sitting on some freezing cold bench in the middle of Tokyo at some unholy hour of the night, could hold her liquor better than he could….and that hadn't even been liquor. It had been champagne! Who got that messed up after a few drops of champagne?
No wonder Toshi didn't like him.
Toshi didn't like the kid and he knew that Toshi didn't like the kid and he didn't expect Toshi to like the kid but…but the kid liked Toshi. Well why wouldn't he? Toshi was awesome. Toshi was the best. Toshi was smart and funny and thoughtful and was never boring even though they were so weird about stuff now….like with Mob…and having fun…and stuff. They had gotten sort of weird now but…but they were still so interesting…even if they were mad at him…
It would pass. It always passed.
"Thank you." Said Mob. She put his coat on over her thin one. Dad said that when she got older she would be able to keep her aura close to her and she would be able to protect herself from the real cold. Well she wasn't big enough to do that yet….and she wished that she had brought her actual coat. She was less cold but…but she still wanted to go inside…but she didn't want to go inside. She didn't want to go back to the party and she didn't want to go home but…but she also wanted to be warm.
His coat was kind of warm.
She pulled it in close. The inside was all…bulgy. She reached in to even it out and found some pockets. She didn't stick her hand inside even though she wanted to. She knew that she was not supposed to go into other people's pockets. She wasn't a little kid. She knew not to go into other people's pockets and….and stuff…and she knew that she was not a little kid…even if the other kids had thought that she was a little kid. That pink haired girl had said that she had been a little kid…and she had only asked her if she liked Frozen and what kind of dolls she liked…and stuff like that. Normal questions that she has asked other kids before…but that had been back when she had made regular contact with the other kids…when she had been in the first grade. She was ten now, not seven, and she should have been…well she was close to eleven now…so she should have been in…she didn't even know which grade she was supposed to be. She hadn't been in school for a while…but also she knew that she was not a little kid just because she liked Frozen and played with dolls and…
And she was a little kid.
That was why Hatori didn't like her. That was why he would never like her the way she liked him. She liked him so much but he liked Minegishi…because they were an adult. They were an adult and…and Mob was not an adult. Mob was a kidult and she was not Minegishi and of course Hatori like Minegishi better…and stuff. She wasn't dumb. She knew that he would never get…get those feelings for her…the ones that she had for him…
But that didn't mean that it didn't hurt when she had to stand there and listen to him talk about how much he loved Minegishi….
"You can have whatever you find in those pockets." Said Shimazaki with a shrug. He didn't care what she took. He didn't have anything dangerous in his pockets. MDMA, coke, another weed pen, a joint he had rolled, a random handful of pills…that maybe he should have kept away from her. Whatever. She could take whatever she wanted. He wasn't Toshi and he wasn't going to keep her from having fun. There was nothing wrong with having fun. There was nothing wrong with teaching her how to have fun.
"I won't go through your pockets. That's not nice." Said Mob. He passed her the pen in his hand. She knew that she shouldn't. She knew that she'd already had champagne to drink and she knew that Minegishi had told her never to mix substances…but she also knew that her hair was trying to float and the snow around her feet was trying to float and…and there were little flurries all around her…and she was cold…and she needed to keep her powers and her feelings under control…
And also she was sort of not entirely happy with Minegishi.
So she inhaled from his pen. It tasted worse than the one that he had given her…and also it sort of had his spit on it already which was kind of gross…but she still inhaled because she needed it. She'd had a rough night and it was ok to do this when you'd had a rough night. Shimazaki had said so. He said that he could tell that she had been having a rough time answering everyone's questions about dad and his work, and that was why it was ok for her to have so much champagne. It had made her feel better and she had been so happy….and then everything had gone wrong but she had been so happy then….
And she could be happy again now.
"Oh. Sorry. That hits kind of rough. Yeah, I usually give you the best shit. You know, because you're you." Said Shimazaki. Her aura still felt sad. It would take some time before it hit her. Her tolerance was going up again. Toshi didn't get tolerance because they were always trying to keep theirs low and shit. Well Mob's tolerance was going up so of course she needed more. Toshi worried over nothing…so Shimazaki was in the right…and Toshi had no right at all to be mad at him. There. So if Toshi came up to him and chewed him out for sitting on a bench in the cold with the kid and smoking her up then he would look them in the where their eyes were and he would tell them that…
He would tell them that they were right because he wanted them to get along.
He couldn't imagine not being with Toshi. The way that they were now, of course, not the way that the new kid wanted to be with them. Toshi didn't do relationships and neither did he. Toshi…Toshi could fuck whoever they wanted to, and they did, but this thing with the kid…it was…different. Toshi was an attractive person and sex was…it was sex. Other things were just more…more meaningful…and stuff. That kid wanted something meaningful with them…
And he knew that they weren't going to give it to him…
And he knew that…he had no idea what he even knew anymore. He knew that it was cold out. He knew that he had left without a plan. He knew that he had taken the kid with him because she had felt like crap, he hadn't wanted to be alone, and her brother had been busy getting some in the horny kid closet. So, really, this was the best thing that he could have done at the time. Now they were here and they were smoking and neither of them felt any better.
So maybe kick it up a notch?
"You can have some of mine if you want. I have it in my bag." Said Mob. She untucked her hand from his sleeves. His coat was warm and stuff if not a bit lumpy…but that was ok. She was ok. She reached into her purse but he put his hand over hers.
"Finish off mine first, then we'll see where this goes." Said Shimazaki
"But…there's still a lot in here. I mean I know that you can't see and all but there's still a lot of vape oil in here and stuff." Said Mob. It usually took her a very long time to finish her pens and she didn't think that she could finish the whole thing in one night even with help. Aside from one big air bubble his was practically full…and also Minegishi had told her a hundred times not to overdo it. Finishing the whole pen would have most certainly been overdoing it.
"So? The more the better." Said Shimazaki
"But Minegishi told me not to overdo it…and also I don't want to…to make myself too sick or anything." Said Mob
"You can't get sick from smoking too much. You're thinking of drinking…and just about everything else…but not smoking." Said Shimazaki
"I…I won't end up overdoing it like Hatori did?" asked Mob. She doesn't want to talk about it but she also doesn't want to get herself into that state. She didn't want to get herself so upset and…and stuff…and just not being able to stop saying things…things that hurt…and Hatori…he had hurt her…but maybe she didn't….maybe she didn't….maybe she didn't have the right to be hurt because…because Hatori was nineteen and she wasn't even eleven yet…and she was still such a little kid…
Just like the pink haired girl had said.
She was a little kid who liked Frozen and played with dolls and…and she was such a baby and…and that was why she was told to stay away from whatever fun big kid game that everyone was playing in the coatroom…and also she didn't have pierced ears or wear makeup or shoes with heels or a bra…and she was such a little kid…
So no wonder Hatori didn't like her the way that she liked him.
"No. First of all I gave him MDMA. We are not on MDMA…and I don't think that you're ready for that yet anyway. Second of all it's a completely different high. This relaxes you. MDMA makes you…well it's like the ultimate sugar rush. Yeah. That's putting it in words that you can understand. It's like the ultimate sugar rush…on a rollercoaster…and also it's the hottest day at the height of summer so you should always hydrate." Said Shimazaki passing down his wisdom to her. Maybe a little bit of MDMA….no, she wasn't ready. Her aura was still all over the place. Maybe she needed to be sedated, not keyed up, because her powers were unstable at the best of times…
But then again you had to walk before you could run, right?
"Oh. It didn't look very fun…so I won't do that." Said Mob. She inhaled some more of the pen. She tried to stop but he held it in place. She kept on inhaling until her throat and lungs burnt. Then he took his hand away. He wasn't being mean or anything like that, no, he just did that to teach her how to hit it the right way. That was very important, hitting it the right way and stuff.
"Oh no, it's fun. It's the most fun that you will ever have in your life. I swear on the bible." Said Shimazaki. He had to make sure she got a good hit off of that. She passed it over to him. He showed her how it was done. No boring people on this bench. Sad people were boring people and therefore there would be no sad people on this bench. This would be the party bench. The party bench in the party park and they were the two best partiers that this bench in this park had ever seen!
"I didn't know that you were a Christian." Said Mob before she inhaled from the pen again. She didn't need him to hold it for her. She knew to do it for a long time. Even if it hurt she had to keep going. The heady feeling was coming back. She liked it. The heady feeling meant that her bad feelings were being chased away and stuff.
"No, I'm agnostic. If there is a God out there then I don't want to fuck with him. Toshi's the opposite though. They're an atheist and if there is a God out there then they want to fight them and shit….heh. You know Toshi and I…back when we first met we were on…well not MDMA but we were coked out of our minds and we started fighting about religion. They wanted to fight God and I want him to leave me the hell alone…God. That was so fucking weird….Toshi was so fucking weird….Toshi is still so fucking weird…" said Shimazaki
"I don't want to talk about Minegishi right now." Said Mob. She felt the friendship bracelet around her wrist. She had been so mean to Minegishi…and also she had lost control of her powers…but she had just been so sad…so very sad…because she really liked Hatori but he liked Minegishi…and of course they would end up liking Minegishi, they were an adult, and she was just a kid.
Just a little kid.
"Why not? You love Toshi and Toshi loves you. Seriously. You guys are like best friends or whatever. You have those matching bracelets. Aren't they like wedding rings for girls or whatever?" asked Shimazaki
"Um…I guess. We wear them to show that we're best friends…and we still are. I just…needed to get away from them…because of what happened." Said Mob
"Yeah. They were wrong to just cut you off like that. They just think that you're going to grow up to be a drunk or something and they don't want to be responsible for ruining your life or whatever. I mean I know that you can handle yourself but Toshi underestimates you." Said Shimazaki. The rotation was somewhat messed up now. He had been holding on to it for too long. She could have the rest. He needed something stronger. The plan had been, well his plan had been, MDMA for everyone…or maybe for some and coke for others…and then just making the most out of that stuffy work party. But then Hatori had to go and be a little bitch about it and then Toshi had gotten pissed off about Mob even though there was much worse stuff in his pockets that he could have given her…and that he would probably end up giving her actually. She needed it and he needed it.
If Toshi didn't want to have fun with him then that was fine. He had other friends…like Mob. She was a friend.
"That's….I wasn't very upset about that, I was just upset that…that Hatori likes them and that he said that he liked them…well they had no control over that but…but they knew that he had liked them and…and they still let me like him…" said Mob. She didn't want to talk about this but they knew that they could…because Shimazaki was a friend and he would not make fun of her and stuff. Also she really wanted to get this off her chest before it got stuck there. There shoes were full of snow. She was still making a flurry all around them with her powers on accident. He didn't mind. He couldn't see it and he kept his barrier so close that he couldn't feel it either. She wished that she could have been more like him. She wished that she could have just…not felt things…but he did feel things…but also he didn't. She had never seen him scared or upset…
Probably because he was either drunk or high or both all of the time like Minegishi had said.
"Wait…you and…and that guy? Hatori? Hatori Nozomu? The brail faced nerd who lives in Shibata's old room and spends his nights screaming at his computer screen? That Hatori Nozomu?" asked Shibata. He blinked when she had said that. It was a reflex. Cold air got into his eye sockets when he did that but he didn't hold his body's natural reactions to shocking news against her.
Even if he got the feeling that she had bene fucking with him.
If she had been anyone else then he would have thought that he was being fucked with. That kid…she was INTO that kid? For real? Her? The Daughter of the most powerful man on the planet wanted to fuck…well the ten year old equivalent…with THAT brail faced nerd? Even his skin told a very long and sad story that was most likely a reflection of the madness within or whatever. Seriously. What did she even SEE in him?
He felt vaguely offended, actually. Not that he would do anything with her at her age but, yeah, he was right there and he knew what he was doing.
She was a great kid and all but he knew that she would grow up and when she did, well, what was it like to fuck a God? He had been asking himself that since he had met Suzuki. What was it like to fuck someone so powerful? Not that he would with Suzuki, no, the man was a dumpster fire of a human being. Mob on the other hand was a nice kid and she would grow up to be a nice woman and also she liked to have fun and he liked to have fun so, yeah, he was always an option for when she grew up. In three or four or five years. When she stopped being such a kid.
But, for some reason, she was into Hatori of all people.
"Yes…I like…well I liked him. He's nice…and he's taller than me…and I like his sweaters…and we play games together….and he always listens to me when I talk…and he's never been mean to me once." Said Mob
"He also can't hold his liquor for shit and always smells like at least half a can of lynx." Said Shimazaki
"What's lynx?" asked Mob
"A kind of really shitty body spray that guys his age use instead of, you know, showering and putting on real cologne." Said Shimazaki
"Oh. Well I don't think that it's…that word. I think that he smells nice." Said Mob
"So you seriously think that he smells better than me?" asked Shimazaki
"No, you smell nice too, but in a different way. I like your cologne a lot. He's just…he smells good in a different way and…and I really liked him…and I don't know why I'm so upset. I mean I knew that he was an adult and I was a kid and…and that he was too old for me but I guess that part of me just thought that he would…wait for me to grow up….I guess. That's dumb." Said Mob. She had been thinking like a little kid. He was older than her so of course he wouldn't want to be with her. That was….that was how it worked. Adults were with adults and kids were with kids…and stuff….
"If he had half a brain he would. Three or four years is not a long time to wait and, honestly, he has a better shot with you than Toshi anyway….I don't know what he thinks is going to happen between him and Toshi…nothing is going to happen between him and Toshi…" muttered Shimazaki. He felt…bad. He felt really bad and…and he had no clue why. Toshi had rejected him. The whole thing was over. The only way that it could have been more over was if they had killed him on the spot. So why did he still feel like…this?
Because if one guy was into Toshi than another guy could be.
Or girl, too, but he didn't feel as threatened. He felt threatened by Hatori but not a girl…he'd have to do some soul searching later when he was less high. Right now he needed…he needed to get even higher. Because he did not want to think about it, the fact that Toshi could change their mind about the whole 'not wanting a relationship thing' and then…and then where would that leave him?
He smoked harder even though he knew that he wasn't making himself get high any faster.
"If Minegishi did fall in love with him then…then I would be happy that they found love…but they rejected him…and also it would be more than three or four years that he would have to wait. I mean I won't be his age in three or four years because I'm only ten and stuff. I mean you might have forgotten my age….and stuff. Because you can't see me…that I'm a kid….just a little kid…" said Mob
"No, I didn't forget. The age of consent here is thirteen but that's kind of young for me. Fourteen is better." Said Shimazaki with a shrug. He reached over for the pen. She was hogging it, which he would not have minded, but she also wasn't smoking it, which he did mind. Either smoke or don't smoke, kid, but don't hold onto it for the sake of holding onto it. We've all got problems that we need to smoke out.
"What's an age of consent?" asked Mob. She knew what consent meant. That was the agreement box you had to check when websites used cookies to mine your data so they could sell you stuff that they thought you would like. Minegishi said that those boxes were a form of coercion because you couldn't use the website unless you checked the box…but she got the feeling that they weren't talking about the internet.
"That's the lowest legal age that it's ok to sleep with someone. In Japan it's crazy low but in some places it's crazy high. That's pretty much the only law I try my best to follow. It's best not to break too many laws at once…this doesn't count. Trespassing and smoking in a no smoking zone aren't real laws." Said Shimazaki. He reached over and took the pen from her. He needed it more than she did considering the fact that she wasn't even using it.
"Wait…so I didn't have to wait until I was all grown up? But….he probably still wouldn't have liked me. I'm just a little kid….just like that girl said…" Said Mob. She pulled her jacket in close around her. She was just a little kid and even in three or four years she would still be just a little kid and, of course, he wasn't going to like her and…and it was hard…and she really wished that Shimazaki hadn't just snatched that pen out of her hands. She wasn't done with it. She needed it. She just got her powers to calm down, the flurries were done with and her hair wasn't trying to float away anymore…and she needed to keep that up because she might lose control again.
"Who said that you were a little kid? I mean you're ten but…who the fuck said that to you? Do I need to fuck somebody up? Because I will. Anything to get my mind off of…whatever." Said Shimazaki
"Um…I don't know her name. She had pink hair and pink lipstick and pink eye stuff and a pink dress and really high shoes and…and I don't know her name but she called me a little kid. I asked her if she liked Frozen, also which of the Disney girls was her favorite, and about what dolls she liked…and she told me that she didn't play with dolls anymore and that I was a little kid and that I wasn't worth her time and…and also that I couldn't play in the coatroom with the rest of them…because I was too young." Said Mob. She felt sad now, remembering what that girl had said. They were both ten, almost eleven, and she had just been so much more grown up…also she had really big breasts but that was not the polite sort of thing to notice…even if Mob felt bad now that she still wore undershirts. She didn't even need a bra, her breasts were just pointy…things…and she was such a little kid in all of the other important ways too….
She needed to smoke some more.
"I have no idea what pink is but, and I mean this with all my heart, fuck that bitch. Seriously. You're Suzuki Shigeko. You organized that whole fucking party! That's your father who founded it and you've run it before. That bitch thought that she could come into your party and disrespect you like that? Fuck her!" said Shimazaki
"D-Don't say so many bad words…and she didn't say anything that wasn't true. I am a little kid and-and…stuff." Said Mob. Shimazaki was facing her now. He did that sometimes. He said that even though he could see he still had the same instincts and stuff. That was why he still smiled and frowned and stuff. He looked at people when he needed their attention and now he was trying to get her attention…
This could be good or bad.
"You're a kid, Mob, but you're not little. Ok? You…you have so much going on for you…but you have zero self-confidence….and I can't let this be." Said Shimazaki. Well not this was a bitter crime. How could someone as amazing as her, seriously she was the most powerful kid esper in the world and she had all of Claw worshipping the ground she walked on, have so little self-confidence? Where had he gone wrong? Toshi had been the one to go wrong. This poor kid…he needed to show her a good time. He wanted to have a good time and he needed to show her a good time…and also just sitting here on this bench was getting kind of boring and he did not do boring.
She'd thank him when she was older and they were partying around the world together.
"Please don't beat her up. She's my age…and also you're thirty…and an esper…and that's not a fair fight at all…" said Mob
"What the fuck is the matter with you? No, of course I'm not fucking up a ten year old. I'm going to give you confidence and self-worth so this way you'll be able to defeat your own enemies. Now hold still because I have to get something out of my coat and I don't want you to end up freezing your ass off by taking it off. Toshi would never forgive me if I let you freeze to death." Said Shimazaki. He did his best not to make her too cold while he dug around his interior coat pockets. He needed to find his various goody bags….
And there they were.
"Um…what are you doing?" asked Mob. She sat perfectly still. He was close again. He had gotten this close a lot to tease her…but he wasn't teasing her now. He was getting something from his coat pockets, whatever was making those lumps, and he had to be close to do that…so this was ok…even though she sort of wanted her personal space….
She wondered if Hatori had even been this close to Minegishi.
She wondered if Minegishi would mind if she was this close to Shimazaki…and then she exorcised those thoughts from her mind because they were weird and stuff. They were really weird thoughts to have and…and stuff. She should not have been thinking about whether or not something would hurt her friend….or if her friend had done something to hurt her…or if…just…she should not have been thinking like that. She just…if Minegishi was in love with Hatori then Mob wished them the best but if Minegishi had been serious about rejecting Hatori then she was very happy and if…if Minegishi had…if they'd had a good reason to keep what Hatori had said, about confessing and stuff, then…then that was ok too…even though Mob…she wished that Minegishi had told her…
But she didn't want to think about this right now.
Instead she thought about what Shimazaki had in his hands. He had plastic bags with brail labels on them. He ran his hands over the labels and muttered to himself. One of the bags had candy in it. She hoped that he shared. She had barely ate at that party…and now she was so hungry….and also kind of thirsty too. Thirsty enough that the snow as starting to look good…like a snow cone without the syrup.
Or something.
"Thinking. MDMA is fun but coke is a hell of a lot easier to dose…but what even is a kid's dose of coke…and no, before you say anything I'm not talking about that soda. Ok? Just…do you want to feel on top of the world right now or like you want to go to bed?" asked Shimazaki. What was he doing? He was being an idiot. Maybe Minegishi was right and he didn't think things through…of course they were right. He didn't like to think because thinking led to overthinking and overthinking was boring and he did not do boring. He needed to stop and think for a moment. He was going about this all wrong. Really he was being a complete and utter moron about this whole thing.
He hadn't even asked Mob how she wanted to feel.
He, obviously, wanted to feel on top of the world after what happened with Toshi but he had someone else to think about. There. He was capable of thinking. He was capable of thinking and he needed to know how she wanted to feel…and also he needed to think of what he would do if she started to lose control of her powers….probably just take her to a part or an open field or something. Yeah. Way from the city so, you know, nobody died.
He wanted to show her a good time, not ruin her life.
"I want to feel like I'm on top of the world…but if you want to go to bed then that's fine too." Said Mob. It was late and she was sleepy. Maybe she would feel better in the morning after a good night's sleep. That was a thing that you were supposed to do, sleep on it, she had heard. Maybe if she slept on her feelings then they would be better in the morning and then she could focus on all the good things from the party…and stuff…
"Mob slow down. You're ten." Said Shimazaki. Coke it is then. Toshi was going to kill him…but Toshi already wanted to kill him so it was whatever.
"Huh?" asked Mob
"Never mind. Anyway, do you have a key? Because I don't have keys, you know because I can literally go anywhere, and it's not a key bump without, you know, a key." Said Shimazaki. He didn't know why he was still feeling his pockets. He knew that he didn't carry keys. Stupid brain.
"What's a key bump?" asked Mob
"And incredibly low dose of coke which I think would be safe for you to try. Now do you have a key or not?" asked Shimazaki
"I don't have any keys, I usually use power powers to open doors…sorry." said Mob
"No, no, no. Don't just say sorry like that. Just…well looks like I'm going to have to eyeball this. Ok, watch me. This is coke, not the soda, and you snort it so you feel like you're on top of the world…or you'll get crazy anxious….but maybe I shouldn't have said that. Self-fulfilling whatever and all…anyway. Whatever. Just watch me, do what I do, and tell me if you feel like your powers are starting to go out of control…and also if you're going to have a heart attack." Said Shimazaki. Well it looked like he was portioning this out onto his hand like ketamine….which he wished he had but he would make do with this. He expanded his barrier out so the wind couldn't get them. He could feel her watching. Good.
She was so lucky that she had him to teach him these things.
"Heart attack? Um…Shimazaki…is this….is this dangerous?" asked Mob. She knew that Shimazaki wasn't afraid of most things but…but they didn't want to have a heart attack. People died of those and she did not feel like dying. She felt like living…and that was what she wanted to do for a long time…but also she trusted Shimazaki because he was her friend….and she could always trust her friends…even when they didn't tell her when her other friends had confessed to them….
"No, this is perfectly safe. I know what I'm doing. Now watch closely." Said Shimazaki
"Ok." Said Mob. She watched him. It looked easy enough. She could do that. She did do that. She did that and….and then….
And then everything got really, really, REALLY great.